She is so bored with her day that she goes to the Google News for distraction. She is so bored with Google News that she goes to Wikipedia for distraction. She is so bored with Wikipedia that she goes to blogs for distraction. She is so bored with blogs that she goes to Facebook for...

Super Short Story (180): Tragicomedy Of Life He realised that even good comedies run out of laughs after some time. Even good comedies alternate with tragedies for bittersweet realistic contrast. Even good comedies mimic life, except that they focus more on laughing at its...

From ‘Young Blood’, as covered by Birdy… Lyrics: We’re only young and naive still We require certain skills The mood it changes like the wind Hard to control when it begins Comments: Most of us are still spiritually naive, despite our age, still lacking much skilful...

Instead of dreading the unexpected curve balls of life thrown at him, he decided to anticipate them best he can, to use them for practising his mean swings. Come what may, he’s going to enjoy the training. Beats the usual pitches any...

Thoughts before jumping out of bed: Instead of just asking why we sleep, how about wondering why we wake up? Why make the effort to crawl out of bed? What makes it worth the trouble? Why wake up more and more, until we are fully awakened? Because we can’t sleep forever anyway, because...

Dukkha is suffering from Birth Ageing Sickness Death Departure from who/what we like, Being with who/what we dislike, Failing to achieve what we like or to be with who we like, Form, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness (Five Aggregates) subject to clinging Dukkha is from...

Gil tells Adriana in ‘Midnight in Paris’, when they travelled back in time to an era of Paris (Belle Epoque) more appealing to her, ‘Adriana, if you stay here, though, and this becomes your present, then pretty soon you’ll start imagining another time was really your,...

Detail from Segantini’s ‘The last task of the day’. Reminds me of the Dukkha of life’s routine burdens and dreariness, and the setting sun signifying it’s time to go home at the end of the day. Towards the Western Pure Land for me....

Colour was my visit-long obsession and joy too, gazing upon Monet’s works, learning about his hard life, which makes his works all the more amazing and...

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. – Alfred Hitchcock S: Dukkha (suffering) is in this moment only when there is clinging to or fretting of it. D: The real pain (physical sensation) may just last for a few seconds but thinking about it creates more...